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The new Palm VIIx
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I have owned the Pilot 5000, Palm III, and now the Handspring Deluxe Visor. I love them all, but I admit I lust after my friends' PalmV. Palms are just too big sometime...for instance to carry to a club.
I was holding out for the new Sony palm-OS pda until I read the specs and discovered that they are not much skinnier than the Handspring and PalmIII. Still, I like the idea of the "jog dial" for scrolling through text. Sony seems to do innovation and user design very, very well (versus the ugly new Palm M100s-IMHO). All sizes are h x w x d.
4.5" x 2.8" x 0.6" (Sony PDA)
4.8" x 3.0" x 0.7" (Handspring Visor)
4.5" x 3.1" x 0.4" (Palm V)
My advice is to skip the Visor and Palm VIIx, and get the Palm V + external modem--if you will actually use it or wait for the Sony model.
I wanted to respond to this as I am a woman (out of college 10 years) who works in the computer science field. I realized, though, I really don't know why more women do not go into this field. I find that the ability to make a machine do something and to *create* is very seductive. Many of my women friends are programmers or engineers as well. I'm much more interested in the comments of women in my age group *not* in computer science, though I doubt that./ has a large population of them. It would be interesting to compare the perspective of different age groups of women. I certainly hope women my age don't say things like "Guys are more computer-type people." I agree that computer science skill and interest is probably not inherently linked to gender.
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I have owned the Pilot 5000, Palm III, and now the Handspring Deluxe Visor. I love them all, but I admit I lust after my friends' PalmV. Palms are just too big sometime...for instance to carry to a club.
I was holding out for the new Sony palm-OS pda until I read the specs and discovered that they are not much skinnier than the Handspring and PalmIII. Still, I like the idea of the "jog dial" for scrolling through text. Sony seems to do innovation and user design very, very well (versus the ugly new Palm M100s-IMHO). All sizes are h x w x d.
My advice is to skip the Visor and Palm VIIx, and get the Palm V + external modem--if you will actually use it or wait for the Sony model.
I wanted to respond to this as I am a woman (out of college 10 years) who works in the computer science field. I realized, though, I really don't know why more women do not go into this field. I find that the ability to make a machine do something and to *create* is very seductive. Many of my women friends are programmers or engineers as well. I'm much more interested in the comments of women in my age group *not* in computer science, though I doubt that ./ has a large population of them. It would be interesting to compare the perspective of different age groups of women. I certainly hope women my age don't say things like "Guys are more computer-type people." I agree that computer science skill and interest is probably not inherently linked to gender.